Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM TechNews
Google Seeks Partners For Self-Driving Car
Google is seeking auto industry partners in its efforts to produce a fully autonomous car.
From ACM Opinion
Sony Made It Easy, but Any of S Could Get Hacked
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...
From ACM News
Trends to Watch in 2015: From Algorithmic Accountability to the ber of X
Year-end technology prediction lists can be dull fodder devoted to pie-in-the-sky concepts, outlandish marketing claims or rehashes of familiar trends.
From ACM TechNews
Apple and Others Encrypt Phones, Fueling Government Standoff
Smartphone makers' use of technology to encrypt their devices has provoked a standoff with the U.S. government, which sees such measures as impeding law enforcement...
From ACM News
Survey: .s. Adults Feel They Are Losing Control of Their Data
Adults living in the U.S. overwhelmingly believe that the government and private companies are violating their privacy, a new survey found.
From ACM TechNews
Google's New Open Source Privacy Effort Looks Back to the '60s
Google has announced a new open source tool for massive data sets based on differential privacy, a technique developed in the 1960s.
From ACM News
What Is Tor? Did Police Outfox It?
European police Friday said they had figured out how to pierce an Internet privacy tool used by dissidents, journalists and online drug dealers.
From ACM Careers
Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites
Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called "accessibility" lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access...
From ACM News
The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
From ACM Opinion
Okcupid's Co-Founder on Experiments, Data Science and the Myth of the 'unicorn'
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...
From ACM News
Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
From ACM Careers
Nypd's Facebook Page Shares Its Triumphs
The New York Police Department's Facebook page has taken on a role that was once largely limited to the city's press corps: publishing news articles.
From ACM News
Chainsaws, Gunshots, and Coughs: Our Smartphones Are Listening
From chainsaws whirring in rainforests to snoring that sounds like chainsaws, entrepreneurs are finding all sorts of creative ways to detect sounds using smartphones...
From ACM Opinion
Former Nsa Chief Mike Mcconnell Says Culture, Not Tech, Is Key to Cyber Defense
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.
From ACM News
Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones
It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone.
From ACM TechNews
Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access
Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a group of satellites designed to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the world.
From ACM TechNews
Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures
Efforts to replace passwords with better protections face an uphill battle.
From ACM News
It's Judgment Day For Killer Robots at the nited Nations
Has the age of the Robocop and Terminator arrived?
From ACM News